From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing

Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 1 Intro to VFX

Start my 1-month free trial

Essential 3: An overview of the camera for compositing

- [Instructor] A good visual effects shot doesn't match the way the world looks to your naked eye, but rather how it is photographed by a camera. Here's a sequence that emphasizes the emotional reality of this climactic scene at the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. This is not how it would look to your naked eye but shot with a camera, it is powerful both for what it allows us to see and also for what it leaves out. By looking at the camera itself, and this applies to any camera body and lens, including this older Canon 7D with a Tamron 24-70 millimeter zoom, there are specific things we can identify that the camera sees and records and your eyes and brain do not. The camera has three distinct parts, each of which contributes specific cinematic qualities to an image: the back, also known as the camera body or sensor, the lens, which may be a prime with a fixed length or a variable zoom like the one that you see here, and the opening, which helps establish the field of…

Contents